Those don't look too bad. There are kits that come with sand paper and compound and even the buffing wheel available at most auto supply houses.
Found the PDF had it filed in the windshield section, and it was a jpg no wonder I could not find it. The two dimensions are critical so use a tape measure because you are making a triangle. Although I can not explain why because mathematically it should be but 12.5 feet and 1.55 inches (exactly half) don't yield the same results when you back the car up to 25 feet and check. Where I first did mine that meant 4 feet of the car was on the road so I found a new location and did it correctly.
There is another file I saved for installs.
Your car looks like the steering wheel is on the wrong side so I assume it is a UK spec car, but if it is not then you are a bit screwed. The adjusters only adjust height. There is a procedure for changing the right and left angle but I forget what it is.
Here is the install, I saved this guys page so I will embed it. Near the end he brings up the fact that the lights are for the other side drive. It is a real issue but as I said there is a procedure to swap them. I am sure you will find it if you search hard.
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Hella Euro Headlight Install
May 15, 2009 by
chadwik
Even though Sunday was Mother’s Day, I had some help from my brother and my dad so I attempted to upgrade my stock headlights to the “facelift” headlights that the later model year E39 M5s had in stock trim.
I will start out by saying that this purported “straightforward” upgrade was…not so much. It could have been the fact that I didn’t have completely stock housings to begin with or that I just had no experience with installing xenon bulbs or any bulbs on my car. I discovered a deal on
M5Board and simply couldn’t pass up the opportunity to upgrade to housings equipped with angel eyes (AE from here on out). In addition, I knew that I didn’t want the stock amber colored AEs, so I purchased the
MyCarr ICE High Output OE Upgrade lights from JLeviSW (part# J-1393-01). Since my car is a 2000 model year (MY2000), it was never available with AEs and thus requires an expensive harness in order to power the AEs with the parking lights. Such a harness can be made from
plans online but honestly I didn’t want to screw with it. I called
Driiv AutoSport (aka Bekkers) since they are local to me and placed an order since I couldn’t find the harness online. A week later my harness showed up and the installation began.
My plan began something like this:
- Remove original housings
- Remove ballasts and xenon bulbs
- Install ballasts and xenon bulbs into new housings
- Install new AA bulbs
- Attach harness
- Install new housings
The plan began simply and easily with the removal of the stock housings. A small trim piece is held on by plastic clips (of the DEVIL…) but I managed to remove them with ease. I inspected the stock housing and compared it to my new Hella Euro housing:
OEM MY2000 E39 Headlamp housing
Hella Euro E39 Headlamp
The two main points to note are the orientation of the transformer mounting brackets and the construction and size of the rubber boot surrounding the xenon bulb. In order to make the transformer from the MY2000 lamp fit the Euro assembly, it had to be rotated. In addition, bulb replacement on the Euro model appears to be one hell of a PITA. The MY2000 assembly allows one to pop the bulb clip off, remove the boot, and have immediate access to the bulb. Here is a comparison:
Unfortunately, this caused a wrath of cursing as my team tried to figure out how to insert the MY2000 xenon bulbs into the Euro housings. For further clarification, here is how the xenon bulb section of the housing compares between assemblies:
MY2000 xenon bulb location, boot removed
Euro housing, boot removed
Notice that the mechanism for securing the xenon bulb in the Euro housing is a tiny notch. Also, the mechanism for securing the cable from the transformer is within the boot itself on the Euro model whereas it is on back of the housing on the US model. The tricky part was trying to figure out how to assemble it all. So here’s the method we came up with…
- Install the xenon bulb such that the notch surrounding the bulb mates up with the slot in the housing
Xenon bulb installation, Euro housing
- Place boot (the Euro version) on top of the bulb and rotate it gently to secure it in the housing. The boot actually clicks into place.
- Install the MY2000 transformer by rotating it as shown (90 degrees clockwise and flipping it over). Secure it using the Euro bracket.
Installing the MY2000 xenon transformer
- Now the Euro housing should look like the following image:
After installing the xenon bulb and transformer
- Now gently re-attach the xenon transformer cable, rotating it until it locks in place:
Attaching the xenon transformer cable
Rotate the end of the cable into place so that it locks.
The transformer cable is now secured to the bulb
After all of that work, we connected all of the wires according to the the diagram (and yes, my wiring harness looked exactly like this one), and my angel eyes did not come to life. We double checked the connections and made sure that power was getting to the bulbs. In the process we determined that the power/ground wires did not line up properly for the connection between the angel eye bulbs and the harness. The image below shows how we originally connected the angel eye bulb and the wiring harness:
Original wiring
Here is the diagram supplied with my bulbs:
Wiring diagram supplied with my bulbs
I’m not sure who’s at fault here, or if anyone is considering the custom nature of this kind of installation, but power from the car was being directed to the BLACK wire of the angel eye bulb. A few quick snips and new connections later and finally we had some results:
The light control is on the "ON" position here.
My only concern now is the fact that these are designed for a right-hand drive vehicle and as a result the left beam is higher than the right. I’m not sure if there is a way to reverse this or not. In addition, I’m not sure how much I like the daytime running lamps to be on at the same time as the angel eyes. With the light control switch in the normal (OFF) position, my daytime running lamps are on. In the parking lights position, the daytime running lamps remain on and both sets of angel eye rings are illuminated. In the final (ON) position, the daytime running lamps are off, both sets of angel eye rings are illuminated, and the headlights are on.
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